You Can Prepare Your Garden for Success With Raised Beds
Now, after the final summer harvest and before the first hard freeze, is a good time to prepare your garden for next Spring. One way to ensure that next year’s garden is easier to manage while yielding even better results is to establish a few raised planting beds. If you clear space and construct them now, Spring planting can be the proverbial “breeze”. Here are a few reasons to try your hand at raised bed gardening:
Convenience
Raised garden beds can be any size you choose, just be sure that you can reach the center of the bed from any of its sides. This will make weeding, watering and harvesting a snap next year. Also, be sure to give your raised beds an edge that is wide enough for you to rest on. If you can sit while you prune, weed, water and pick you’ll be surprised how much more motivated you’ll be to work in the garden all summer.
Improved Soil Content
Raised bed gardening is a great way to provide the very best soil environment. You mix the soil as you add it to the bed so that it has an ideal content for water drainage, nutrition and care.
The soil in a raised bed is considerably more loose than the dense, compact dirt of in-ground plant beds. This means that your plants’ roots will breathe better and get better nutrition. Aerated soil allows plants to better absorb nutrients.
Loose soil also means that your plants will have an easier job spreading their roots. That is a good thing since a stronger root system means a healthier, sturdier plant. If you want a lush garden, make it easy for roots to spread, grow and get fed.
You’ll also find that it is far easier to enrich the soil in a raised planting bed. Not only will you have less work turning the soil and mixing in the additives, but you will have far less waste from those supplements washing out or off of the hard ground of a dug-in planting bed. Not to mention how much simpler it is to calculate the amount of additive needed for a bed with distinct dimensions!
Plant it Your Way
With raised planting beds, you’ll be able to plant exactly what you want, in the amount you want, where you want. By using Kincaid Plant Markers as you plant, you’ll know exactly what is where even before tender shoots appear. Later on you won’t have to bend over to find what is a plant and what is a weed. Order your plant markers and prepare your garden now and when Spring finally rolls around you’ll be prepared.
